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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.